In 1822\, a secret family moves into a sec ret cabin some thirty miles northeast of Baltimore\, to farm\, to hide\, a nd to bear ten children over the course of the next sixteen years. Junius Booth--breadwinner\, celebrated Shakespearean actor\, and master of the ho use in more ways than one--is at once a mesmerizing talent and a man of te rrifying instability. One by one the children arrive\, as year by year\, t he country draws frighteningly closer to the boiling point of secession an d civil war. As the tenor of the world shifts\, the Booths emerge from the ir hidden lives to cement their place as one of the country's leading thea trical families. But behind the curtains of the many stages they have grac ed\, multiple scandals\, family triumphs\, and criminal disasters begin to take their toll\, and the solemn siblings of John Wilkes Booth are left t o reckon with the truth behind the destructively specious promise of an ea rly prophecy.
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